Nadya Mirochnitchenko received funding to study the effects of washed-up algal blooms of varying toxicity on lakeshore food webs along Lake Erie.

Haley Ingram received funding to examine the relationship between riverine ecosystem condition (e.g. water quality) and human perception of those conditions within different socioeconomic groups, as well as the effects of exposing study participants to different types of written statements about local ecosystem condition.